- Lived at 102-03 32nd Avenue in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York while growing up.
- Graduated in 1967 from Flushing High School in Flushing, Queens, New York. He was class president.
- Graduated from Morehouse College.
- Earned a Master of Divinity in church history from Union Theological Seminary.
- Was president of SUNY Old Westbury for 20 years.
- In 1972 he joined the Abyssinian Baptist Church as a youth minister rising to become senior minister.
- For many years he has delivered a Sunday morning sermon on 98.7 KISS FM.
- Father Calvin Otis Butts Jr was born 5 December 1922. He was a United States Marine during World War II and married Eloise Edwards on 14 September 1947.
- Survived by wife Patricia, two sons, Calvin Butts, IV, and Alexander, a daughter, Patricia Jean Butts, and six grandchildren.
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